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FREDERIC BUGKNAM, OF PORTLAND, MAINE. Letters Patezttlo. P(3,692, dated January 2S, 1868; emulated January 11, *1868,

REVERSIBLE FRYING-RAGK.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it knowrrthat I, FREDERIC BUCKNAM, of Portland, in the county ot' Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Reversible Fryingack; and I hereby declaro the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of inyinvention.

Figure 2 a top plan, with the bail thrown down at one side, and the two parts of the racli opened.

I desire to obtain Letters rPatent on a device for containing articles while being fried in a dish, such as is usually employed for that purpose, and, when thus usedcontains fat, lard, dto. Such a dish is usually ilatbottomed, shallow, and open on the top.

My inventionis designed to contain the article to be cooked or fried, and to be placed, with its contents, down into the hot fat or other substance in the frying-pan or dish. For convenience in thus manipulating my invention, a bail `or handle is attached thereto, which I will hereafter designate.

My invention is composed of two parts, hollow or concave on their inn'ersides. These two parts are the same diameter, and match one upon the other. They are shown at a a. At b is a hinge or `joint, by which they are attached to each other, and upon which they open and close. When closed, they are fastened by a catch, c. .Upon the part a is attached the bail or handle d, at the pivots e, as can be seen in iig. 2, The bail or handle is over the two pivots c. This is so'connected as to allow the two parts a a', when united, as in iig.

1, to be turned over, as indicated by the arrows in tlg. 1, in both directions, backward or forward. The purpose of this arrangement is as follows: When the articles have been placed in the frying-dish, with one side down, and have been sufficiently cooked-upon such under side, then the device can be lifted from the frying-pan by the bail, the body a a reversed, and then the top, or portion of the articles not cooked, may be placed in thefrying-pan, while the parts before'cooked or fried may be ltept out. lThus a number of cakes or other articles may he all cooked at the same time, to the same degree, and equally upon both sides. When done, the device is lifted from the pan, opened, its contents removed, and other articles can be submitted to the saine process.

In the drawing, the rack is represented as made ct' concentric rings of wire'. It can be so made, and also of sheets of wire netting, struck up to form the edges, by a familiar process not herein claimed, of course, and' the edges finished with a tin binding. No particular method of making the material of the rack is, however, claimed, except that therzick must be of some open-worked metal, similar to wirenetting, or as seen in the drawing, with the View, as isevidcnt, that the fat or other substance in the fryingpan may enter the rack when it is placed in the pan, as 'set forth, and also, that when the rackis raised from the pan, the substance inv the pan will not remain in the rack. The rack is intended to be made to fit the different shapes of frying-pans. This rack may be made of sizes to Iit in and correspond with the diii'erent sizes ofpans manufactured for different sizes or numbers oi' stoves and' ranges, andis intended to iill the interior of such pans.

What I claim as my invention, andvdesire to secure ily-Letters Patent, is-

The reversible frying-rack, substantially as herein set forth and described.

FREDERIC BUCKJ.\T./\.Mv

Witnesses:

WM. HENRY CLIFFORD, HENRY C. HoUsroN. 

